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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1S20. 'GOSSIP REGARDING WILSONS HEALTH IS AGAIN REVIVED .Questioners Notice Absence of President's Automobile Ridesj v Friends Make Reply to Curious By David Lawrence (Copyrlcntad, ISICO) Washington, April 10. President Wilson is not s much in evidence 'nowaday to pedestrians In the na 't tonal capital as he was a fortnight - .ago, and consequently a fresh series . of rumors has begun to go the rounds. The automobile rides which had become a daily occurrence have '"been discontinued. - ""This probably started roeslp anew .Jut the story that Wilson has suffered -a' relapse lglven more credence In ' Washington than .perhaps is Justified . because the White House policy of au- thorirlng vague and fragmentary de scriptions of the president's health, - coupled with n occasional ' statement ;from some attending physician com pietely confirming; rumors that were previously current, has bred many ' -skeptics. 'EXPLANATIONS ARE MADE v " jThe discontinuance of the automobile Kdes of the president is explained Jn contradictory ways. One story emanat- Mng from the Whte House is to the ef--ftct that the president has lately been too "busy with public affairs to get his accustomed outing. On the other nana II is a fact that members of the cabinet re wondering whether the president : considers them necessary at all for no 'cabinet meeting has been called In many months. 1 A- One or two cabinet mem' ers feel that tRey ought to have the benefit of the advice and counsel and even instruction of the chief in these, days of pressing ji governmental business. ' Another story also given with a tinge ; :of White House authority is to the ef , 'feet that the president was under too great a nervous tension while motoring. PEOPLE STARE AT HIM i People in the streets stared at him . Curiously, wondering If all the gossip "they had heard about his health were .true. -Unquestionably these photographs - of the president didn't do him any good, .for they stirred up a morbid curoslty. The first plan of having a carefully posed picture of the president would probably have been the wiser, for so many snapshots were taken that in ' some cases the effect of Wilson's 111- nesa was grossly exaggerated. The pres ident did appear thin, but his counte nance seemed to possess a ruddiness of "color due, no doubt, to the long after noon of exposure in the White House 'grounds. If Wilson has suffered a relapse, how .ever, there Is nothing In the outward behavior of White House officials that .gives the slightest confirmation of it PREPARING TO MOTE Preparations are going forward for the moving of the executive offices to Woods Hole, in the middle of next month. ' ' It An quite possible that there may be -one session of the cabinet before Wilson goes away for the summer, though no word has gone forth to that effort. The re, .have been reports current that the cab inet members felt somewhat slighted .by ;the president's indifference. The other day incidentally Mrs. Wil son had all the wives of the cabinet members to tea. It was the first social .function of iu kind for many months. and no doubt had tha effect of preserv ing happiness la the official family. The alow recovery of the president Is dis couraging to his friends, who had hoped the spring; months would see him about with his accustomed vigor. His de tachment from official Washington is much more pronounced than anyone dreamed would be the case. Not only has tha president failed to see his owa cabinet, but several foreign ambassadors accredited to the United States have also been waiting for months to rain an audience with Wilson. KEEPS OWlf COUNSEL The ... president is keeping his own counsel, too. None of his cabinet Snows what he intends doing about the peace treaty, and it is seriously doubted on Capitol Hill whether Senator Hitchcock knows Wilson's plana There was recurrence, too, during the senate debate on Friday of the meeting that Wilson Is unable to function as president because of his physical weak ness. This insinuation, however, has so often been injected in the partisan war fare that it has heretofore been dis counted and friends of the president like Senators Overman and Williams have openly charged the Republicans with conrpiring to give the country that im pression. On the other hand, the failure of the president to appoint a railroad labor board as provided under legislation passed more than a month ago has given concrete excuse for the renewed argu rien that Wilson ought to delegate some of his authority. The White House explanation is that the president has had difficulty getting men to serve on the labor board. TROUBLES MOUNT UP Wilson has had his trouble continuous ly with appointments. Nearly 10 men declined to serve on the federal trade commission when it was first organized and the president had several declina tions wr?en the federal reserve board was established. But the Interesting and regrettable truth is that throughout Washington skepticism abound the stories of the president's ultimate recovery seems to be extending even to friends who could not bo suspected for a moment of per mitting the wish to be parent to the thought as is charged of opposing I-olitiaal folk, perhaps the White House will shortly issue a clear statement about the president's condition to refute the gossip and give an accurate state ment of facts past and aresent. FRENCH WEAKEN IN RUHR POLICY Assurance Given That in Future Action Will Be Withheld for Consent of Allies. Senators Clash at Sims-fianiels Inquiry; Two Admirals Testify Washington. April 10. (I. N. S.) Sharp clashes between Senator Pittman, Democrat of Nevada, and Senator Hale, Republican of Maine, chairman of the senate committee Investigating the Sims-Daniels controversy, enlivened the hearing today. Senator Pittman accused Chairman Hale of extending the Investigation away beyond the committee's authority. "The delay by the navy in getting ships into the war did not prolong the war a day," Admiral F. F. Fletcher tes tified today. Admiral Wilson, commanding the At lantic fleet, clashed with Hale when he took the stand. Asked If the "whole navy was ready for battle." Wilson said : "It would be silly to give a yes or no answer to that question." Gridiron Club Puts Candidates on Grill Washington, April 10. (U. P.) Presi dential candidates' night was observed by the Gridiron club at a banquet here this evening attended by several aspir ants for the nomination. The candidates? heard their claims presented -In a new manner quite unlike that In vogue at conventions. They were almost, but not quiet, "treated rough." By Henry Wood Paris, April 10. (U. P.) First Indications f French weakening un der pressure of allied protests against her occupation of the Rhine cities was seen in the text of the French reply to Great Britain's note, made public today. Premier Milierand said the Paris , government in the future would not act : without the consent of Its allies in at- ' tempting to force Germany to live up to the terms of the treaty of Versailles. Attempting to justify Marshal Foch's move, Milierand declared that It was . Impossible for France to accept Ger- : many's unguaranteed promise to with- j draw relchswehr from the neutral sone 1 as soen as the Ruhr revolt was crushed. GERMANY 18 MISTRUSTED Events have proved, the premier as serted, that Germany's promises cannot be relied upon. He cited Germany's failure to deliver her war guilty, her delay In payment of reparations and de- j livery of coal and her failure to carry I out the terms of the treaty regarding naval and land disarmament. The British Government, he believed. ' had not "measured the full danger of these systematic evasions of the Ver sailles pact." France realized, he said, and was forced to cry : j "We've had enough." i An awakening of France's position was seen in Millerand's declaration that "France is convinced of the necessity for the most intimate concert with Eng land" in the solution of "such vast world problems" as Russia, the Balkans, Asia Minor and Turkey. FREtfCH REALIZE POSITIOK Marshal Foch, it was recalled, had said that France was thoroughly able to "go it alone" in enforcing the treaty 'of Versailles. Observers here believed that the French government realised it was faced with virtual isolation If It per sisted In action in defiance of England. Germany, heartened by the British stand against French occupation, also was beginning to assume a definite at titude. Dr. Wllhelm von Mayer, the German charge d'affaires here, an nounced that he had received a note frdm his government indicating fresh French aggressions. The note, which was delivered im mediately to the French foreign of fice, declared that "we have an un confirmed report that French troops are marching toward Aschafaenburg (22 miles southeast of Frtnkfort-on-the-Rhine). If this is true, we cannot as sume responsibility In event , there are collisions with German troops." TROOP MOVEMENT DE5IED j The French foreign office denied the troop movement. declaring the report probably originated from ".observations of patrol movements of Dieburg. French leaders still hoped that the United States would not Join with Great Britain and Italy in condemn ing occupation of the Rhine cities. The foreign office said no note had been received from Washington disapprov ing occupation of Frankfort An exchange of views, however, the foreign office admitted, had shown that the United State held to Its be lief that German soldiers should have been allowed to restore order in the Ruhr district America, officials said, believed France "must have had seri ous reasons for ordering the occupa tion," and asked for a further eaplana- , tion of these reasons. imtiiiiDiiop li in II ( - The Necessity of a Competent Examinatiqp - - - - g - Kear-tlghted, far.lghte1, astigmatic or whatever the vis ual troubl. may be, this wonderful Instrument reflects mat knowledge with unerring positlveness to the operator. CJ It is in the doing of things that we learn how to do them. GenUIS Consist in rloinor tViJnrres Ki,f.. 1 - Ullltl lildll others do them. ! 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Demott bHso carried British mercan ' tile marine service certificate 853.91, ) in which he was rated as an assistant 1 cook and his nearest relative was given ! as Wilbur Demott, Paterson, N. J. i Among his other papers were a certifi j cate from the British committee of the French Red Cross and a letter from the director of work in the French devas tated area dated March Jl. At the trial emphasis was laid on the consular vise for Western Russia and the late date of the above menUoned i letter, together with fragments of an I other letter In his possession in which i the "international courier" was spoken j of. This evidence was taken as an ln j dication of Bolshevist activities, and the : officers of the courtmartlal believed he ; had been sent from France into the Ruhr on a mission connected with the revolution. CARRIED CHEAP REVOLVER The strongest proof urged against him was that he was captured in an auto- ; mobile with notorious Red leaders and , with "arms" in his possession. '. It was found that arms consisted of nothing more than a cheap revolver. General Mabisch told me that the young American had not asked to see any representaUve of the American govern- 1 , ment after his arrest. His companions In the automobile i also were sentenced to death and Pres 1 Ident Ebert has been asked to give his ! approval to the sentences. Two BriUBh subjects, Mrs. Harding, j claiming to be a correspondent of the London Daily News, and a man named Voigt, correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, who were arrested at Kssen on suspicion of connection with the rev olution, have been released. DEMOITS PARENTS LIVE AT " POTOWA ROAD, VIRGINIA New York. April 10. Paul R. De mott is the only child of Mr. and Mra Wilbur Demott. who live at No. lit 1 Potowa road, between Paterson and Lit-! tic Falls, N. J. The father Is an em- i pioye of the Graef Hat Band company in Paterson. Paul Demott attended the Paterson high school and Alfred university, Al fred. N. 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